Archive for the ‘IPhone’ Category
Filed under: iPod Family, iPhone
The iLuv iMM178 shares a lot in common with many iPod docks available in the market today:
Play and charge your iPhone or iPod — check.
Alarm clock scheduling based on full-week, weekdays and weekends — check.
Alarm clock with customizable sounds — check.
Alarm clock that vibrates to wake you up — wait, did [...]
Filed under: iPod Family, iPhone, iPhone 101
Since you can’t just swap out the battery on your iPhone or iPod, it’s important to know how to get the most life out of your device’s battery, particularly if you won’t be able to charge it for a while. Apple has two pages on its site that detail [...]
Filed under: Accessories, Humor, iPod Family, Cult of Mac, Odds and ends, Music
I’m a fan of both silly iPod docks and re-purposing old tech gear, so this how-to at Unpluggd hit me in just the right spot. It’s really more of a hack than a how-to — the guy fixed his 8-track player just by [...]
Filed under: Accessories, iPod Family, iPhone
Although you still can’t get your Beatles fix through the iTunes Store, Apple Corps has made a license agreement with MusicSkins, the maker of music-related vinyl skin products for electronic devices. As a result, you can now purchase Beatles personal device skins featuring the Beatles logo and cover art from [...]
Filed under: Hardware, iPod Family, Portables, iPad
Two things happen like clockwork every year: Apple raises the capacities on its NAND flash-based iPods and the iPhone, and analysts like iSuppli release a report saying that worldwide supplies of NAND flash are likely to be constrained as a result. The supply constraints aren’t likely to affect Apple, [...]
Filed under: Gaming, iPod Family, iPhone
Last week we noted the impending arrival PopCap’s ridiculously addictive Plants vs. Zombies onto the iPhone / iPod touch, and now this marvelous time-waster has landed. A variant of the the tower defense genre, Plants vs. Zombies requires you to defend your house from mobs of raging zombies by placing [...]
Filed under: Macworld, Accessories, iPod Family, Peripherals, iPhone
I’m still skeptical about laser projectors — while the technology is impressive, the practicality is still a little limited. And unfortunately, Microvision’s demo of their SHOWWX projector here at Macworld 2010 didn’t do much to change my mind. It’s a nice little device — it’s almost exactly the [...]
Filed under: Macworld, Accessories, iPod Family, Apple, iPhone, iPad
Musicskins was kind enough to show us around their booth on the Macworld floor, and while we expected to see the usual vinyl case stickers, what we found was actually pretty impressive. The ’skins, which are made for almost every accessory and device under the sun (the [...]
Filed under: iPod Family, Freeware, iPhone, App Review
We’re getting closer and closer to some of the stuff we see it science fiction literature and films. Siri [iTunes link] is a small Silicon Valley startup with a really breakthrough product that for now only works on the iPhone.
Here’s the deal. You download the free app, start [...]
Filed under: iPod Family, Portables, Odds and ends
Over at TechRepublic’s 10 Things blog, Debra Littlejohn Shinder has posted an article called “10 reasons why I’ll be passing on the iPad.” Some of her reasoning is sound, but quite a few of her points are easy to refute. It’s worth looking at her post and the [...]